Vol 57 No 6 | NIGERIA Cleared by cash 18th March 2016 A cash-for-immunity deal brokered in 2014 by Swiss lawyers between the then President Goodluck Jonathan's government and two sons of the late General Sani Abacha, Mohammed and Abba,...
Vol 66 No 23 | NIGERIA Tinubu pushes the multi-party system over a cliff 21st November 2025 Instead of attacking the government on insecurity and economic woes, the opposition wastes its energy on factional battles Two resonant images sum up the decline and fall of multi-party politics in Nigeria. The first is of the headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at its...
Vol 54 No 23 | NIGERIA Anambra kicks off the race 14th November 2013 The governorship election in Anambra State on 16 November will kick off the race for the national polls in 2015, even if the formal opening may be six...
Vol 51 No 16 | NIGERIA Father Kukah, Professor Jega and the vote 6th August 2010 In the Nigerian tradition of irrepressible optimism periodically suffused with brutal realism, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah argues that the last decade's attempts at democracy in Nigeria have been...